Endangered species recovery planAn endangered species recovery plan, also known as a species recovery plan, species action plan, species conservation action, or simply recovery plan, is a document describing the current status, threats and intended methods for increasing rare and endangered species population sizes. Recovery plans act as a foundation from which to build a conservation effort to preserve animals which are under threat of extinction. More than 320 species have died out and the world is continuing a rate of 1 species becoming extinct every two years.
Écologie spatialeSpatial ecology studies the ultimate distributional or spatial unit occupied by a species. In a particular habitat shared by several species, each of the species is usually confined to its own microhabitat or spatial niche because two species in the same general territory cannot usually occupy the same ecological niche for any significant length of time. In nature, organisms are neither distributed uniformly nor at random, forming instead some sort of spatial pattern.
Transformisme (biologie)thumb|Le dodo, ici illustré, est un exemple d'extinction (au ) souvent cité. Le transformisme, appelé aussi transmutation des espèces, est une théorie biologique, rivale du fixisme, dont l'histoire remonte à l'époque de Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck (1744-1829). Ce dernier énonça sa fameuse théorie sur l'évolution des espèces qui désigne aujourd'hui toute théorie impliquant une variation (ou transformation) des espèces au cours de l'histoire géologique.
